User talk:GoRight

Welcome to Wikibooks, GoRight!  First steps tutorial Wikibooks is for freely-licensed collaboratively-developed textbooks. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing and assume good faith about the intentions of others. Remember, this is a wiki, so you're allowed to change just about anything, and changes can be made easily. Come introduce yourself to everyone, and let us know what interests you.

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Welcome, GoRight!
Congratulations.

I think you will find the smaller wikis a vast improvement in sense of community and general helpfulness, over en.wikipedia. Just remember to be nice! Wikibooks has some special rules; a simple summary is that Wikibooks is intended for textbooks, and original research isn't allowed. But some kinds of original writing are allowed. However, Wikiversity, which is historically and practically connected with Wikibooks, is very clear that you can present original research, and you can opt out of NPOV on pages. If you proceed slowly, you will be, I'm sure, helped should you cross some boundary.

One rule I encourage you to follow: don't import disputes here from other wikis. If you run into a user you had problems with elsewhere, avoid assuming you will have problems with that person here. Don't accuse people here of misbehavior based on what they did there. And should someone follow you here with accusations, step aside. Don't fall for the temptation to respond intemperately. You will find admins on these smaller wikis are generally not inclined to jump for blocks. The small wikis need users, they don't want to drive them away! En.wikipedia, this isn't.

Respect the community here, and it will respect you. It is not uncommon for users banned from Wikipedia to become sysops on the other wikis. It kinda changes one's attitude. --Abd (talk) 04:32, 18 September 2010 (UTC)